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From: larryb@bcsaic.UUCP (Larry Baum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Jasmine Disk Drives
Message-ID: <1428@bcsaic.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 15-Jun-87 16:31:53 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 15 16:31:53 1987
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Reply-To: larryb@bcsaic.UUCP (Larry Baum)
Organization: Boeing Computer Services AI Center, Seattle
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Keywords: Jasmine, HD, hard disk

I think my experience with Jasmine is of interest:

I ordered a Jasmine 80MB in mid-April.  I was told it would be shipped
on 4/29.  It was shipped 5/14.  Not when promised, but ok two morw weeks
was no big deal.

I opened it up.  Very nice manual.

It worked fine.  Boots very fast.  Lots of public domain software and
shareware.  However, my Mac is in my study which is very quiet and the
noise level from the disk was just too high.  I called their customer
service (and got through the first time!) and reported the problem.
They let me send it back COD so that they could see if it was abnormally
noisy.  A couple of days later I receieved a new disk.  It too was
noisy.

I called them again (and got through right away again) and told them
about it.  I sent the disk back (this time I paid the freight) and have
received my refund.  They did not say or do anything to that was not
friendly.  I give them very high marks for service.

Anyway, if you have an environment that has ambient noise, I feel the
Jasmine is well worth considering.  If your environment is extremely
quiet, you will definitely hear the constant hum from the disk.

I am still looking for a hard disk and would appreciate any comments.
My priorities:

     1) Must be very quiet
     2) more than 20 MB
     3) reliability
     4) cost

I am currently considering MacBottom.  Any experiences?  Is it really as
quiet as the MacUser article claimed?  

LSB

 
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